Kshitij Goel
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Robust Adaptive Systems Lab, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
kgoel1@andrew.cmu.edu

Kshitij works in the area of vehicle dynamics and control systems. He is a recent graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He likes working on complex multidisciplinary systems. Being specifically interested in aerial and underwater systems due to their inherent complexity, he earned his major in Aerospace Engineering with additional subjects in Artificial Intelligence. He wants to leverage tools from artificial intelligence and robotics to work towards contributions in the field of aeronautics in order to make it more efficient, fast and reliable.

During his undergraduate studies, he held various leadership roles. First with the IIT Kharagpur Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team, leading an interdisciplinary group of 30 undergraduate students towards making cheap and effective underwater robotics solutions. Secondly, he was the student lead on a class capstone project which was eventually sponsored by The Boeing Company, USA. He successfully led the team towards developing a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft from scratch which satisfied critical endurance and design benchmarks set by the company. For the latter role, he was also awarded the Boeing-IIT Kharagpur University Relations Fellowship.

Always curious to study something out of his field and being a firm believer of applications of robotics in the aircraft industry, he joined The Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University as a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar. As a RI summer scholar, he has been working with Prof. Nathan Michael at the Robust Adaptive Systems Lab in the area of adaptive teleoperation of mobile robots. His current work, tries to answer fundamental questions about how efficiently humans and robots can interact to optimize processes in the automation industry. In his free time, he enjoys open source contributions to software community and reading non-fiction.